I guess I won't be able to include this commercial oddity in any future Central Ohio roadmeets.
That said, anyone know of location(s) in Kansas & Missouri, where "retired" gas stations lay?
http://www.delgazette.com/news/66028/octagon-building-headed-to-kansas
Deerfield, Kansas has a vintage example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deerfield_Texaco_Service_Station) which I was fortunate to find freshly restored about six years ago when I was en route to Colorado (StreetView dates from 2008 (https://www.google.com/maps/@37.979436,-101.1342942,3a,60y,50.15h,92.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svLuFIAjHiH6weyZz2CBsJw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664)).
Prefabricated gas stations were common in the 1930's. I used to work for the Austin Company and I first learned about this in a book on the history of the company. But, of course, this only featured their own design.
The first link below lists 28 manufacturers if I counted correctly.
Ben Eckart gives his location as Manhattan, KS.
http://www.enarco.com/union/union.html (http://www.enarco.com/union/union.html)
Lee Hoover, also mentioned in the article, does not state his location or if he does, I didn't see it.
http://www.historicgasstations.com/ (http://www.historicgasstations.com/)
Thanks to Throckmorton for the information (above)
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Columbus Dispatch is now joining in the media parade
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180129/collectors-dismantling-prefab-delaware-gas-station-from-1920s-to-preserve-it (http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180129/collectors-dismantling-prefab-delaware-gas-station-from-1920s-to-preserve-it)
I was thinking of notifying Historic Gas Stations of this extant example in Independence, MO. They haven't sold gas there for a long time but I think it was a Skelly station as late as the early 70's.
https://goo.gl/maps/Dqr9mcvZzVP2 (https://goo.gl/maps/Dqr9mcvZzVP2)
There are a couple retired gas stations at Red Oak II near Carthage, MO. There's an old Phillips 66 and an early Standard Oil
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-redoakii/
There's a retired DX at Clinton, Missouri
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4757/26209225648_cc21b5e68b_z_d.jpg)
and a nice old Standard at Vienna, Illinois
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7532/29825185565_3d3cea3ce9_z_d.jpg)
and mustn't forget the Odell Illinois Standard
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2414/2267520304_9652a3c364_z_d.jpg)
Many of the Shell stations in SoCal (particularly in the Glendale/Burbank area where I grew up) were prefab metal buildings configured in a particular way: two service bays on the left side, the office (aka the place where I snagged maps) on the right front, with storage area opening into the service bay behind the left side of the office and rest rooms to the right. Driving up (then) US 99 to Sacramento several times a year to visit relatives revealed even more Shell stations of this design (my dad preferred Shell and always, AFAIK, had a Shell credit card well before general-purpose cards were issued).
At least the places they kept the maps were consistent!